Permits Recorded
24,558
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Leading Asset Class
85%
Other
Contractors Identified
6
Named on permits
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 24,558 building permits in Philadelphia between January 1 and July 19, 2026, spanning every stage of the pipeline from application through completion. District 5 led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Other is the leading asset class in Philadelphia, at 85% of counted permits (20835 of 24558).
1 800 HEATERS INC is the most active named contractor/applicant in this dataset, appearing on 354 permits.
District 5 leads all communities on declared value at — across 3796 permits.
Permit volume ran from 3391 in the earliest recorded month to 1251 in the latest — a snapshot of a live, moving pipeline rather than a finished period.
Data visualizations
Permit volume by month
Permits by asset class
Geographic analysis
District 5 leads Philadelphia on declared value, followed by District 1 and District 2. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| District 5 | 3,796 | — |
| District 1 | 3,710 | — |
| District 2 | 3,086 | — |
| District 8 | 2,903 | — |
| District 3 | 2,772 | — |
| District 4 | 2,360 | — |
| District 7 | 2,172 | — |
| District 6 | 1,404 | — |
Philadelphia is a reminder that permit coverage varies city to city — volume tells part of the story even where declared value doesn't.
Methodology
This brief is built from Philadelphia's municipal permit data, normalized into PropertyLabs' unified permit schema. Figures count every permit recorded between January 1 and July 19, 2026, across all statuses — applications, reviews, issuances, and completions — so they describe the full pipeline, not just approvals. Where a municipality repeats a single master-project valuation across many sub-permits of one site, that valuation is counted once. This is a point-in-time snapshot (July 2026), not a full historical series.
Sources and limitations
Source: Philadelphia municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Philadelphia export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Declared value is not consistently reported in this dataset and is omitted from totals. Unit counts are not consistently reported in this dataset and are omitted from totals. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.
View live Philadelphia permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Philadelphia Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Philadelphia Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/philadelphia-building-permit-activity
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